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History of Manistee, Mason & Oceana Counties, Michigan
H. R. Page & Co., Chicago - 1882

         [pgs 63 - 64]
         
         ALEXANDER H. DUNLAP
         was born in St. Clair County, Mich., June 25, 1830. 
       His father was born in Scotland, and came to this country 
       at the age of eighteen years . His mother was a native of 
       St. Clair County. He lived with his parents on their farm 
       in his native county until he arrived at the age of seven-
       teen years, when his father died. He was educated at home 
       and at the district school until nineteen years of age,
       when he went to the State Normal School and afterwards to 
       Albion College. After leaving college he followed teaching 
       public and private schools for several years with marked 
       success, in Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa. The last two 
       years of his teaching were in the Mitchell Academy, as 
       principal. He studied law several years, and was admitted 
       to the bar at Charles City, Iowa, in 1860. He immediately
       entered upon the practice of his profession in Iowa. April
       12, 1860, he married Miss ADA S. POINDEXTER, a very talented 
       lady, daughter of REV. SAMUEL POINDEXTER, of Maine. He con-
       tinued the practice of law until April, 1862, when he en-
       listed as a private, but was soon made lieutenant of Company 
       A., Eighteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He remained in the 
       service about a year and resigned in consequence of injuries 
       received in his right hand. In November, 1862, he was com-
       missioned judge advocate general by GEN.SCHOFIELD, and acted 
       as such several months at Springfield, Mo.
       
         After returning from the army he resumed the practice of 
       law in Mitchell County, Iowa, and remained there until the 
       Spring of 1867, when he located in Manistee, where he has 
       kept pace with the growth of the place, and has become 
       eminently popular with the people, and earned the reputation 
       of being an honest and reliable attorney. He has paid but 
       little attention to politics, but has acted with the Repub-
       lican party, and has held the offices of city attorney two 
       terms, circuit court commissioner one term, and is the present
       prosecuting attorney of the county. He was the first Republican
       prosecuting attorney who had been elected for ten years. MR. 
       DUNLAP has accumulated a handsome property in the city and 
       county. In addition to the practice of law, he gives consi-
       derable attention to farming. He owns several fine farms in 
       the county; one especially valuable is located on Portage 
       Lake, upon which there is an excellent mineral spring, which 
       bids fair to be of great importance to this portion of the 
       state.
       
         In the great fire of 1871 he lost several houses, including 
       his family residence. He rebuilt all of them immediately after 
       the fire. His family consists of his wife and four children - 
       two girls and two boys. His eldest daughter is about to gradu-
       ate at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston.
       
         MR. DUNLAP's practice in the supreme court has been large, 
       and the records show it to have been very successful.
       
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